Pure Quotes - Page 6

• I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Teeth, May, Wheat

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• When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure as gold through suffering. It is the burning away of the dross. Suffering has a great redeeming quality. As a drop of water failing on the desert sand is sucked up immediately, so we must become nothing and nowhere ... we must disappear.

  Bhai Sahib Singh

  Spiritual, Fire, Water

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• The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Truth

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• When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

  Michael Short

  Leadership, Lying, Greatness

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• Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.

  Alison Thompson

  Greatness, Eugenics, Blood

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• Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.

  William J. Murray

  Men, Majority Rule, Democracy

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• To rid the grass of weed, to get
  The whole root,
  Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind
  
  And desire - to make clean, make pure.
  The weed, tough
  As the rock it leaps against,
  
  Unless plucked to the last
  Live fiber
  Will plunge up through dark again.
  
  The weed also has the desire
  To make clean,
  Make pure, there against the rock.

  Lucien Stryk

  Weed, Strong, Dark

  Susan Porterfield, Lucien Stryk (1993). “Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk”, Swallow Pr

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• We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Thinking, Mind

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• The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. Since it is by giving alms that everything is pure for you, you will also receive that blessing which is promised next by the Lord: the Godhead that no man has been able to see. In the inexpressible joy of this eternal vision, human nature will possess what eye has not seen or ear heard, what man's heart has never conceived.

  Pope Leo I

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Movement, Awakening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.87, Vintage

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• Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Enough

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.59, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution... It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup."

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Squares, Roots

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• It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

  R. B. Braithwaite

  Years, Amusement, Fifty

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• There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

  John Woolman

  God, Christian, Heart

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.238

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

  Honore de Balzac

  True Love, Love Is, What Is Love

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• I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Heart, Heaven

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.19, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. "It is unfortunate," he said, "that the Lutherans were here before me." By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.

  Ninian Smart

  Buddhism, Japan, Land

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• So his life has flowed, From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure, Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill, May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Life, Beautiful, Light

  "Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts (Act I, Scene 1)". Book by Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1835.

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• First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Real, Mean

  "Rainbow-Flowers". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1973.

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• Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Love Is, Flames

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1985, Library of Alexandria

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• Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

  Barry Long

  Life, Love You, Love Is

  "Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview". Interview with Hal Blacker, 1995.

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• The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'

  Pope Pius XII

  Jesus, Blood, Soul

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• Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Piano, Space

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

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• The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

  Frederick Soddy

  Air, Snow, Feelings

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• By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need a mind without thoughts. In other words, you need a no-mind, just a pure silence, so you can see directly into things. And out of that clarity will come the choice on its own; you are not choosing. You will act just as a buddha acts. Your action will have beauty, your action will have truth, your action will have the fragrance of the divine. There is no need for you to choose.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Choices, Silence

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